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Burnside will do exactly what is expedient at the time.

TPF 39. Couldn’t agree more. I have had my say numerous times regarding disrespect being shown to players who despite trying their darndest, and having been successful in being selected for AFL lists turn out not to be stars (or even making the grade at all) being referred to as spuds or worse. They obviously don’t understand that there is in all populations a normal distribution in which a large percentage are in the middle and small numbers at each end. There always has to be someone at the left end of the bell curve. That doesn’t make them spuds or duds. They have at least achieved what most of us could only dream of. Perhaps it is they who are at the left end of the bell curve when it comes to normal human empathy.

Surely it depends, like elbows to the head, who you are and which team you play for. Like all things AFL, there is a predetermined pecking order.

85 points total (12 goals only) Adelaide v Freo. WOW - Gill and Shocking's idea that 666 and all the other crap rule changes would result in higher scoring is a huge success, like everything else they meddle with.

Christian will be composing his weasel word judgement now - " judge not lest ye be judged" "accidental, high contact, low impact - player came back on"

Well preferably not both, but Weid yes. Exactly. But then respect doesn’t seem to be a modern anti-social media trait.

Because they have had such a lot of time and played so much in blending into our backline??

If we happen to pull off a surprise win in a heavy downpour perhaps this will have contributed. ?

Liam Jurrah?

Fitness ..... physical and / or mental? And an apparent lack of interest and commitment, at times.

Similar things were said of the late Colin Sylvia. Trac has yet to prove himself to be a consistent contributor rather than a flash in the pan type player.

Is that you, Titus? IF he started now we may have an answer for preseason 2020.

Does that mean it was just puppy fat we saw?

By all accounts he didn’t show much interest in preparing for 2019. A massive let down.

Happy now, Pres?

Round 1 our players showed how seriously they took the team and the game - and all down hill since.

Why do the supposedly professional organisations known as MFC & AFL still list him in websites as number 0?

So he is a dud ( offensive term at the worst of times) but for a bottom aged first year player I just cannot respect anyone using such terminology PS I too hope you are very wrong

So Master* Elegt You have seen a lot of Jordan up close over a long period to come to this opinion I presume * presuming you are male but perhaps you are from Tasmania so haven’t yet had an opportunity to decide

Even before the Geelong final last year I held huge optimism for Sam becoming at least a very good MFC forward. His, together with the team as a whole, has been a depressingly awful year so far. Of more concern to me with this consistent underperforming is the loss of ability to attract, or even hold star players. Six months ago we were “a destination club”: no longer unless the team and the coaching and fitness staff rapidly pull their collective fingers out and start winning and playing attractive watchable footy.

“Our brand as a football club .............” ”an improvement ......” ”happy that we kicked 2 goals after quarter time .... wasn’t that good?”

A long term Melbourne trait. Easy to score against and can’t stop runs. Even last year when we were winning.

It is after all the players not the coaches who play the game, and only they can chase, shepherd, team up etc So, 11, it is either poor instruction or poor implementation

Even if they did “analyst it” they obviously have not learned much. Insanity is continuing to do what does not work.

I hope that our players were required to watch the Cats v Hawks game in its entirety, though I guess if our coaching staff are too arrogant or too far up themselves to have reviewed, and learned from, our PF loss then they were probably told to relax and eat a batch of Easter eggs, and turn up for their paychecks on Thursday regardless Delivery into 50 was for the most part precise and looked as if there was actually a plan, with a bail out plan as well ....... still I guess with our team having so many entries into 50 they may feel we don’t actually need a plan or any skills either. How absolutely gutting to watch these two teams, who we convincingly booted out of the finals only 8 or 9 games ago, thinking they were on the slide, fighting back whilst we just roll over and meekly capitulate in what has sadly become our style.